Wish the old forums were still here - it was really entertaining at the time when he got called on his expert-on-everything routine. I wasn't the one who noticed it initially, just compiled the list once that snowball started to roll down hill. He changed his board name some point after that I believe.

He's certainly gotten better (and smarter in his SME claims) in his trolling over the years since then. Although he still has to have the last word, which is always fun when you have two people that have that same OCD issue on the same thread.

JohnnyRotten wrote on Aug 29, 2014, 20:45:He's not a lawyer. He's claimed to be about a dozen things to position himself as the subject matter expert de facto on everything until I called him out on it years ago on the old forum. Then he just stuck with his last lie.

That's all you need to know about his credibility on any subject.

Links, or you're just blowing gas your your ass.

Hah yeah, "old forum" like the one from 15 years ago? I don't think Beamer's been around that long.

Don't remember when the last forum upgrade happened, again that's a Blue question.

JohnnyRotten wrote on Aug 29, 2014, 20:45:He's not a lawyer. He's claimed to be about a dozen things to position himself as the subject matter expert de facto on everything until I called him out on it years ago on the old forum. Then he just stuck with his last lie.

That's all you need to know about his credibility on any subject.

Links, or you're just blowing gas your your ass.

I don't think the old forum posts are around anymore. Maybe Blue has them up somewhere.

Julio wrote on Aug 29, 2014, 06:27:Thanks for all the links ASeven, great reading. Looks like there are plenty of people on the internet who are becoming the real gaming journalists now...And for some reason I'm now associating a 'Game Jam' as when a SJW is screwing a member of the gaming press.

Agreed - you've help bring the most clarity to the subject on these threads.

Seriously, you just pulled those up in about 5 minutes. Does this not seem unhealthy to you? How angry you are?

At this point your agenda is pretty obvious and I don't think I owe you any explanation, it doesn't make any difference. You stick to your own circular logic and refuse to move out of it. Just FYI, this info is easily found using google in a minute.

Also, love your passive-aggressive ad-hominem there. Weren't you taught to avoid that in any discussion in law school?

He's not a lawyer. He's claimed to be about a dozen things to position himself as the subject matter expert de facto on everything until I called him out on it years ago on the old forum. Then he just stuck with his last lie.

Eirikrautha wrote on Aug 24, 2014, 20:33:The problem that most people have with SJWs is that they demand immediate agreement and obedience to their opinions on all three of these topics. If you agree that there is sexism, but you disagree with the scope of it, you are a sexist. If you agree that there is a larger problem with sexism in the gaming community, but you don't agree with them on how to fix it, then you are a sexist. The SJW has no allies, only sock-puppets or enemies. That's it.

Beamer wrote on Apr 24, 2014, 11:23:I look at numbers mostly on games I had no plans to buy. If I see something very high that wasn't on my radar, may as well check out why. If I see something very low, it can be entertaining to read just how incompetent the devs were.

We're on the same page here. If I see a 1/10, the review is generally worth reading just for the schadenfreude alone.

ASeven wrote on Jun 24, 2013, 12:37:Just because it's legal doesn't make it right. The law is not always right, in fact it's often wrong. Considering NSA may have spied on foreign countries, from where I'm standing they did something illegal, and even if it's legal within the US it sure as fuck ain't right.

Of course it's legal. The government is the sole mechanism that defines "legal". And if by some minor coincidence, some "I" isn't dotted or some "T" isn't crossed, the government will retroactively make it "legal". Every government in history, despotic or otherwise, has without exception, only done "legal" things inside of their own framework.

Therefore, it's a meaningless word in this context. And to waste even a second debating whether the team that makes up the rules as they go is following them accomplishes nothing, and is a suckers game for children.

"But, the Constitution." you say (in the specific case here of the runaway US government). Fuck you I say. You don't have a single right, you have privileges which any branch or minor bureaucrat of the federal government can revoke (or simply refuse to recognize at all) at will.

"But it limits the government only to powers expressly laid out in the document," you say. Fuck you again I say. That piece of paper doesn't mean a goddamned thing without the will and discipline to enforce it.

That document is dead, dead, dead. And there isn't any amount of bitching now that is going to change any of it. The power has long since left the hands of the people. You don't get a say in what happens next. But feel free to quibble over the details about how fucked we are.

IMHO, this issue exists in the society, not just in the microcosm of the gaming industry. The situation is the same in both. There is no special pleading to make here about defining this as a unique "problem" with special "solutions" specifically for this industry.

Therefore (again IMHO), if/when society as a whole sees a value in change and makes that change, the gaming industry will come along as well. The article is just troll/hit bait along the old the "will someone please think of the children" lines.

TL;DNR: Saying that this one small corner of society is doing a "bad" thing while ignoring or minimizing that the same happens in society as whole is just trolling for hits, fan boys, concern trolls, etc.

Interestingly, he's the only person on my ignore list. While we have a lot of stupidity and shills around here, most of them are more than willing to have a civilized if pointless and one-sided debate.

He's the only one on mine too. He is so deluded by his self-perceived superiority to such an extent that any deviation from his stated position puts you squarely in the category of the very villainy that he is raiiling against. Having an opposing opinion to his "perfect" one is akin to a crime.

I've had Beamer on ignore for just about a year and can honestly say it made the forums much more pleasurable to read. The key is to not take the bait when he trolls you which you still see if someone quotes it. Thankfully I see fewer and fewer people quoting him which is nice, appears that others are finding the same thing. Right now my list is basically him, Thundr and that weirdo EA PR flunkie.

I used to enjoy a certain sense of schadenfreude watching him dance after pointing out the obvious holes in his wall-o-text trolls. It also used to be fun calling out his endless fallacious appeals to authority Vis-à-vis his "I'm claiming that I've been in a thousand careers and thus will speak with as the sole and absolute expert on everything", but it isn't as fun as it used to be.

His buttons are too easy to press and the responses are just the same regurgitations now (which basically boils down to endless posts on his absolute certainty on how 100% right he his).

Troll baiting with him isn't as fun as it used to be. Maybe I should stop...